eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. Peer Reviewed Title: Unknowing in Circles: A Story of Artful Inquiry as Praxis Journal Issue: Journal for Learning through the Arts, 7(1) Author: MacKenzie, Sarah K. , Bucknell University Wolf, Mary M , Daemon College Publication Date: 2011 Publication Info: Journal for Learning through the Arts, Center for Learning in the Arts, Sciences and Sustainability, UC Irvine Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vs1v0gx Author Bio: Sarah MacKenzie is an Assistant Professor of Education at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where she mentors student teachers and teaches courses in literacy and educational foundations. Her current research explores arts-informed epistemologies and the ways and spaces in which pre-service teachers (co)write their identities as teachers. Mary M. Wolf is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Daemon College in Amherst, NY where she mentors student teachers. Her research focuses on class, culture, and the impact of community within art classrooms. Keywords: Pedagogy, Arts Integration, Reflexivity, Higher Education, Mandalas Abstract: This paper shares a story of community, vulnerability, art-making and possibility that arose within the context of a Social Foundations of Education course. Drawing on arts-informed epistemologies, the authors began the semester by inviting students to critically engage with the central ideas of the course through the process of creating a mandala. At the end of the semester, students were once again invited to (re)create their mandalas as they reflected on how their understandings had evolved over the course of the semester. Within what was initially a very uncomfortable act, a community emerged as students sought to support and encourage one another. This sense of community remained consistent across the course of the semester and